Understanding the Constitution: the 14th Amendment: Part I
- November 15, 2021
The Colorado constitution as adopted in 1876 was admitted by all to be republican in form. But it imposed far more limits on the legislature’s financial powers than TABOR does.
READ MOREA constitutional lawsuit against TABOR would have no objective merit, but the Colorado Supreme Court’s persistent hostility to TABOR might induce it to rule for the plaintiffs anyway.
READ MOREThis post summarizes what earlier posts at this site have said about the states’ power to curb illegal immigration.
READ MOREContrary to popular mythology, none of the Founders drew a sharp distinction between a democracy and a republic.
READ MOREThe court should have dismissed this lawsuit immediately . . . .[But] we at Colorado’s Independence Institute took it very seriously. We anticipated that unscrupulous liberal jurists might seize on it as a way to destroy TABOR.
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